Who We Are

NARAL Pro-Choice Washington is the leading grassroots pro-choice advocacy organization in Washington state, and we believe that every woman should be able to make personal decisions about the full range of reproductive health options. NARAL Pro-Choice Washington works to protect every woman’s right to access the full range of reproductive health options, including preventing unintended pregnancy, bearing healthy children, and choosing legal abortion. NARAL Pro-Choice Washington is the state affiliate of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Pulling a Rodney Tom: Former State Rep. Mark Miloscia – who was once merely an anti-choice, anti-marriage equality Democrat – is “becoming a Republican and challenging State Sen. Tracey Eide in the 30th legislative disctrict,” reports the P-I.

“It’s obvious we’re going to have a public health problem on our hands”: Rachel Maddow reported the closure of the last abortion clinic in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley this week. Whole Woman’s Health is closing due to restrictions set by Texas’s omnibus anti-abortion bill passed last summer.

Attempts to pass extreme anti-choice legislation in Texas go back to 2003.

Speaking of abortion restrictions: The Alabama State House passed passed a bill banning abortions if a fetal heartbeat is detected, which effectively bans abortion before a woman even knows she’s pregnant. The House also rejected an amendment that, by funding comprehensive sex education, would have, you know, actually reduced the state’s abortion rate.

“I repeat in my head what we always tell our patients: you don’t owe them anything. You don’t need to answer them. Under no circumstances do they deserve to hear intimate details of your medical life. Just ignore them.” If you haven’t read this essay at The Toast, written by an abortion clinic escort, you should.

Our Feminist Killjoy of the Week: is Madeline Burrows, the creator the one-woman show MOM BABY GOD, which documents her time undercover in the anti-choice youth movement. Her Lila Rose impression is priceless, and so necessary.